The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-05-19
THE ATTEMPT TO KILL THE CzAR.
Two Anony nous Dispatches OF
Warning from London-Sufcide OF
q NihiIfsts Widow.

Warning from London-Sufcfde OF
a NihiIfst's Widow.
1t is now learned, says Berlin dis.
patch to 1he NeW York World, that
the czar and czarina would probably
have been assass mated on the 18th OF
last March if it had not been for two
anonymous dispatches of warning
from London. These dispatches were
in exactly the same words. and were in
cipher the key to which is only known
to the highest officials Of the Russian
police. The messages asserted that the
emperor's life ould be attempted on
his way to the requiem service in
memory of his father. In pite of this
warn ng both the car and czarina at
tended the service, driving to the church
in closed carriages. The police arrest
ed the conspirators and carr ed them
off without any assistance. So quietly
was this done that not over twenty
people in the street noticed the arrest
The czar returned to the palace by
another route, and when he reached
home he gave way to Il fit Of terrific
rage, during which not even the EN-
press or any of his children dared TO
approach him. Soon after the con-
sp rators were arrested the whole court,
strongly guarded, set out for Gatchina.
On the way thither he had another
provilential escape, as distractions of
iron and wood had been placed upon
the rails. The train WAS nearly wreck
ed. but it providentialIy RENAME on
the track. The men arrested ultimate
ly confessed where the factory in which
the explosives had been manufactured
was located. The police surprised the
inmates by means of Il stratagem. On
arriving outside the suspected house a
slelgh was, in accordlnce with a pre-
arranged plan, upset and one
of the shafts thereof apparently
broken, which nccessiated the occu-
pants innocently requesting some of the
inhabitants of the house in question to
allow the sle gh to he drawn into the
courtyard in order to be repaired.
This having been granted without sus-
p;cion, two more slcighs drove ND. ap-
parently containing companions of those
in the first one. Hardly had they done so
before some of them made rush for the
doors of the building and easily sue
ceeded in occupying all the apartments,
while the rest surrounded the house
The inhabitants, some twelve i'm number,
among whom were two women, being
taken completely by surprise, sur
rendered without resistance, but the
police had a narrow escape from being
blown up along with the whole
hnnsa tl,rnnoh nf ti,a
ing to kick bomb, having the appear
ance of a large Russian prayer-book.
with silver clasps. The attempt was
frustrated by one of the offices tripping
the conspirator un The book was an
internal machine. While the prson-
ers were being conveyed to the fortress
o. st. Peter and St. Panl one OF the off
GERS inquired what had induced them to
engage in such crime. to which the re-
ply was: Poverty. They asserted that
they had been seduced by large sums of
monoy. part of VIII cl was found in their
possess Oh. The fact of these prisoners
being in possess OIL of so much money
and the large quantHi IS OF explosives
found tend to show that more than the
mere killing of the czar must have been
intended.
A suicide. not noticed by any
OF the st. Petersburg papers. has
been one OF the results of the attempt
OF the 18th of March. This was the
death by self-poisonlng of Sophie Lob
kowSk. She was the wife of one of
criminals implicated in the assination
| of the late ear in 1881. She was r
talented woman. possessing extreme
beauty and moving in the highest Rus
sian society. She was founl to be in
nocsnt of an knowledge of the great
crime, and SO escaped punishment.
Left with one son. she turned to litera-
ture as means of support after losing
her husband. She soon made repl,-
taton as 4; writer of romances and
children S stories. Toward the latter
part of her life she sought consolation
for her many sorrows IN drink. The
last time that she called upon her pub
Usher to collect her money for bril-
liantly-written Russian society novel
she was in rags. The attempt upon
the life OF the present czar on the 18th
of last March excited her greatly. 1t
bl oaght back to her the terrible scenes
OF excitement through which she
passed in 1881. and resulted in unset
Ting her mind to such and extent that
rs stated above, she poisoned herself
i'll tit of nelanchola.